Abdullahi Sule, the governor of Nasarawa State, has stated that Northern State governors are powerless to overthrow Bola Tinubu, the president they installed.
The recent tax reform package that the Tinubu administration forwarded to the National Assembly was reportedly rejected by Northern governors.
Muhammadu Inuwa, the governor of Gombe State and the chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, announced the governors’ position in a statement on Monday.
Remember how Tinubu sent a tax reform bill to the Senate and House of Representatives for consideration on October 3, 2024?
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The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) will henceforth be known as the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) as part of the bill’s sector reforms.
Value Added Tax (VAT) exemptions for oil and gas exports, crude petroleum oil, feed gas for all processed gas, and products acquired for use in humanitarian donor-funded initiatives are the goals of the proposed new tax law.
Following a meeting at Government House in Kaduna on Monday, Northern State governors and the Traditional Rulers Council asked the National Assembly to “oppose any bill that can jeopardize the well-being of our people.”
Sule offered his thoughts on the contentious VAT law that has angered the northern region against Tinubu in an interview on Channels Television.
“We cannot install President Tinubu as president; the North intervened strongly to ensure Tinubu’s election and then turned against him.
We selected an item from the measure that deals with VAT; no one is opposed to anything. We are discussing the VAT sharing formula. Whether we agree or disagree with this is up to us.
We made it clear that we wanted the VAT to be distributed fairly. We will claim that it will be unjust to certain other Southern states if we continue as is.
